Microsoft Database Structure

[Monte Goulding]

On 05/12/2012, at 1:57 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote:

> Anyone have any experience in importing a Microsoft Works Database (WDB) file? My father has a number of these files, and wants to try to move to a Macintosh workstation, but his ball and chain is a number of works databases that apparently there is no OS X application that will open/convert in a way he can work with. 
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> I could write him a simple application that can read any works db I give it and convert it to an LC sqLite format, if I knew how to parse a WDB file at low level. I can look at the low level data myself, but if someone has done the work already, I would be willing to send a bit-o-cash his way. 


I'd say Curry's your man but you might want to just check for tab delimited or CSV file export. Not sure if you can find an ODBC driver.... google.

Cheers

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